Big Ring

The Big Ring is a ring-shaped large-scale structure formed by galaxies and galaxy clusters near the constellation Boötes with a diameter of 1.3 billion light years, located 9.2 billion light years away. It was discovered in 2024 by Alexia Lopez, a PhD student at the University of Central Lancashire. In 2021, she discovered the Giant Arc, a similar structure located in the same region. It is a significant astronomical discovery, as it challenges the Cosmological Principle. Currently, there is no known cause for its formation within our current understanding of the universe. The Big Ring is the seventh large structure discovered that contradicts the understanding of smooth matter distribution across the largest scale of the universe.

Big ring may refer to: ==Places== Big Ring, a ring of galaxies in the constellation Bootes, a very large structure in the universe ===Paths=== a ring road Moscow Big Ring Road (A108), a Russian federal highway Moscow Big Ring Railway, see Rail transport in Russia Big Ring Road (Budapest), Hungary; a boulevard around central Pest, Budapest, starting and ending at bridges across the Danube River to Buda, Budapest Big Ring, a track configuration for the race circuit Sokol International Racetrack, Almaty, Kazakhstan ===Fictional=== Big Ring, a fictional space station in Mobile Suit Gundam AGE; see List of Mobile Suit Gundam AGE episodes ==Arts, entertainment, media== Big Ring Records, the record label created by the band 'The Steel Wheels' for their own record releases Big Ring (陳秋月), an award-winning Taiwanese radio program at the 1983 18th Golden Bell Awards The big ring, or center ring, at a circus ==See also== Great Ring (disambiguation) Ring (disambiguation) Big (disambiguation)

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